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Bug 1606915 - (CVE-2018-14424) CVE-2018-14424 gdm: use-after-free in the GDM daemon
CVE-2018-14424 gdm: use-after-free in the GDM daemon
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180813,repor...
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Depends On: 1615446 1615447
Blocks: 1606918
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Reported: 2018-07-20 18:15 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2018-10-30 19:02 EDT (History)
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-07-20 18:15:15 EDT
A flaw was found in GDM daemon. A use-after-free in the GDM daemon, which is possible to trigger via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls as an unprivileged user.
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2018-08-05 22:54:44 EDT
Acknowledgments:

Name: Chris Coulson (Ubuntu Security)
Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2018-08-12 20:22:58 EDT
Upstream bug:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/401
Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2018-08-13 11:40:56 EDT
Created gdm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1615446]

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